Q and A: Canning bacon grease and saving seeds
Canning Bacon Grease
I use bacon grease in frying eggs and sometimes potatoes and making cornbread. I have several jars of it in the refrigerator because my mother fries a lot of bacon and saves...
Things got a little nuts around here
Unfortunately, my handicapped, adopted son, Javid, developed a bone infection from a pressure sore he's been fighting for some time. He was in the ICU for a while, on IV antibiotics and was recently...
Q and A: Canning potatoes with onions, Morning Glory removal, and Soil conditioning
Canning potatoes with onions
I was wondering about canning potatoes with onions. I've canned vegetable soup (which includes potatoes and onions) in a pressure canner and it gave me the idea of canning only potatoes...
The sun’s out and we’re enjoying it wholeheartedly
This morning, I finished transplanting our peppers and got them into the greenhouse. Yea! But I'm now looking at a whole lot of leggy tomato seedlings that need to follow quickly. We haven't had...
We don’t know what to do
Hey, it's sixty degrees F outside today and the sun is shining! Yesterday it was 58 degrees with lots of sun. Boy does it feel great! But it sure looks ugly too, with all...